Android: How do I create a Fragment that extends from AppCompatPreference

Question

I'm trying to create an app with a navigation bar. The navigation bar will have options to go to, such as the SettingsActivity which will have preferences.

For navigation bars, I know you're meant to switch between fragments in a MainActivity to switch between as the user clicks on the different fragments.

However, I need different fragments within my Settings page so I think that I need to use an activity (i.e SettingsActivity) for each of the different headers. My settings activity needs to extend from AppCompatPreferenceActivitybut if it were a fragment, I would have to extend it from Fragment as well.

But because Android Studio does not support Nested Fragments I don't know what I should do.

Thank you

Answer 1

If you create a SettingsActivity via android studio you will notice that it is using some fragments that extend PreferenceFragment. This class is deprecated thus you should use (as it is stated in the documentation) the class android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat

You can create a Fragment that extends android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat and show it manually.

Or You can create a fragment and show a list of desired settings and show the fragments you created using the method getChildFragmentManager()